Leaf Vacuuming

The Leaf Vacuuming Program is intended to provide Carlyle residents and businesses a convenient option of disposing fallen leaves. You are not required to use the Leaf Vacuuming Program. Leaf burning will still be permitted after the Vacuuming Program starts.

Please call 594-5211 or 594-2468 with questions or comments. Please use the following rules and guidelines to help enhance the effectiveness of this new program. Correct placement of fallen leaves is extremely important to ensure that your leaves are vacuumed by the City.

• Blow or rake your leaves to the nearest City street frontage. However, do not blow your leaves to the frontage of Franklin or State Route 127. If your only street frontage is along Franklin or Route 127, blow your leaves to the edge of your alley. The City will not pick up your leaves in an alley if you have street frontage on a street other than Franklin or 12th Streets.

• Please blow or rake your leaves along the edge of a street pavement. Please try to avoid raking or blowing them into ditches.

• Leaves you wish to have vacuumed cannot be placed on top of a burnt pile of leaves. If a spark from a burnt pile of leaves is sucked into the City’s leaf vacuum, it could severely damage the vacuum.

• Please “wind row” your leaves. In other words, avoid piling your leaves in a central location. Rake or blow your fallen leaves in a line along your street frontage.

• Please make sure that the leaves you wish to have vacuumed are free of sticks, twigs, and trash.

• Please avoid parking your vehicle in the street on leaf vacuuming days. If a vehicle is obstructing leaves you wish to have vacuumed, the City will not be able to vacuum them up. They will be skipped.

• Consider wetting your leaves down using a garden hose, after you have raked or blown them to where you intend them to be vacuumed. Wetting them down will help keep them in place, and will actually make the City’s job of vacuuming them easier.

• There could be many reasons why the City gets behind in its vacuuming schedule, including mechanical problems, simple delays, or emergencies that take the Street Department to another project. If you are skipped, the Street Department will make vacuuming your leaves the first priority of the next day. Friday will be used as a vacuuming day if necessary, as well.

• The current plan is to make the vacuumed leaves available to residents for compost. When compost is available, the City will notify the public of their location and how to pick it up. The City has divided up City neighborhoods into sections where the leaf vacuum will be in service on either Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

These sections are organized as follows:

Monday
South of Franklin Street, excluding Lake Hill Estates.

Tuesday
West of State Route 127 up to and including 19th Street, and north of Franklin Street.

Wednesday
East of State Route 127, up to and including 4th Street, north of Franklin Street, and including Kane Street.

Thursday
Between Jefferson and Franklin Streets from 4th Street to 1st Street.
19th Street and all property west, north of Franklin Street.
Lake Hill Estates
Krebs Hill Subdivision
Warren Krebs Subdivision
Governor’s Run
West Lake Terrace and West Lake Drive
McDonald’s
Microtel/Carlyle Resorts

We expect to learn more about how the program will work as we implement it this first year. Improving the program and making it work the best for you will require your feedback and your patience. Please contact us if you have any questions or if you are not on one of the City’s daily routes. Program rules and routes are likely to change as we improve the program, so please check back often for any updates.

Street Department: 594-5211 City Hall: 594-2468

View the Leaf Vacuum Sections Document (PDF, 824kb) for a visual representation of the daily leaf vacuuming schedule.

Download the Printable Version of our Leaf Vacuum Guidelines to keep on hand: Leaf Vacuum Guidelines (PDF, 3.91mb)

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Curbside Recycling

The City’s Curbside Recycling Program will begin on Friday, October 2, 2009. The program will be administered by Brisk Sanitation, the same company contracted by the City to pick up your weekly garbage. To prepare for this new program, please consider the following information and tips on how the program will work.

• Beginning the week of September 28, 2009, blue recycling bins will be dropped off at your place of business or residence. Please use these blue bins for your recyclables.

• You will see a new $2.00 charge for the program in your monthly utility bill that you will receive in October, due November 5, 2009. If you are exempt from the City’s garbage pickup program, you will also be exempt from the recycling program.

• Recyclables will be picked up every Friday. Please place your recycling bins in the same place you set your garbage for pickup. Regular garbage will be picked up on its regular day, Monday or Tuesday, as the case may be.

• Participation in the recycling program is voluntary. You are not required to begin sorting your recyclables from other trash.

• If recycling, the following types of recyclables should be rinsed out placed loosely inside the blue bin you will receive:
  1. Aluminum and tin cans.
  2. Glass bottles (green, amber, and clear).
  3. Plastic milk and soda bottles (#1 and #2 only) – look for a number on the   bottom of the bottle, perhaps surrounded by a “recycle” symbol, to determine   if the plastic is recyclable.
  4. Colored HDPE (detergent bottles bleach bottles, etc.)
  5. Please remove the caps from all plastic and HDPE bottles.
  6. Please rinse all bottles and cans.

• The following types of paper should be placed in a plastic or paper grocery bag next to your blue bin:
  1. Mixed office paper.
  2. Junk mail.
  3. Newspaper.
  4. Chipboard (like cereal boxes, etc.).
  5. Magazines and catalogs.

• Corrugated cardboard is also recyclable but should be broken down and tied together so as to not fly away.

• The following types of material are NOT recyclable:
  1. Food contaminated packaging, such as pizza boxes or food wrappers.
  2. Containers that previously contained oils, such as cooking or motor oil.
  3. Styrofoam products.
  4. Disposable diapers.
  5. Plastic grocery bags, UNLESS they are used to hold recyclable paper.

For questions or for additional information, please contact:
Brisk Sanitation: 866-462-7475 or the City Hall: 594-2468.

Download the Printable Version of our Curbside Recycling Guidelines to keep on hand: Curbside Recycling Guidelines (PDF, 2.95mb)

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